Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders
Search results
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 October 2024. 2007 film by Ethan and Joel Coen For the novel, see No Country for Old Men (novel). For the poem that includes this line, see Sailing to Byzantium. No Country for Old Men Theatrical release poster Directed by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Screenplay by Joel Coen Ethan Coen Based on No Country for ...
Jul 1, 2024 · The movie was also the biggest commercial hit for the Coens. Paramount. “No Country for Old Men” made $171.6 million worldwide, which at the end of 2010 made it the third-lowest-grossing Best ...
- Scott Rudin Turned The Coen Brothers on to The Book.
- Heath Ledger Was Considered For The Role of Llewelyn Moss.
- Garret Dillahunt Auditioned For The Role of Llewelyn. Five times.
- Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez Directed Josh Brolin’s Audition.
- Brolin Broke His Shoulder Right After Landing The role.
- Javier Bardem Wasn’T Initially Comfortable with The Violence.
- Mark Strong Thought He Landed The Role of Anton Chigurh.
- Chigurh’S Hairdo Was Inspired by A West Texas Barfly.
- Chigurh’S Boots Were Equally Deadly.
- The Coens Didn’T Think That Kelly Macdonald Could Pull Off The role.
While it turned out to be one of their most successful films, both commercially and critically, neither Joel nor Ethan Coen can take the credit for coming up with the idea of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s novel. “It was sent to us by [producer] Scott Rudin who had acquired the rights to it,” Joel Coen saidin an interview. “He sent it to us in galleys ...
Heath Ledger was reportedly the Coens’ first choice for the role of Llewelyn Moss, and seemed equally interested in working with Joel and Ethan. But after some initial conversations, he reportedly withdrew himselffor consideration in order to take some “time off” from working.
Deadwoodstar Garret Dillahunt plays the lovably naïve Deputy Wendell in the film, but he originally auditioned for the role of Llewelyn—on more than one occasion. “I auditioned for Moss about five times, every time a star fell out,” Dillahunt toldThe A.V. Club. “That happens to me a lot when stars fall out—they go to me, or I have a shot. So I audi...
Though Josh Brolin wasn’t quite the marquee name at the time he eventually landed the role of Moss, he had some powerful friends on his side. Brolin learned of the role while he was filming Grindhouse with Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, so he asked if he could borrow a camera to shoot a quick audition for No Country for Old Men. The direct...
Just a couple of days after signing on to play Moss, Brolin broke his shoulder when his motorcycle collided with a car. As he was launched into the air, Brolin told NOWMagazine, he had just one thought: “I'm flying over the car—and I'm really getting some air—and I remember thinking, 'F***ing sh*t! I really wanted to work with the Coens.'" Rather t...
Though Javier Bardem was excited at the prospect of working with the Coens, he wasn’t super comfortable with playing such a violence-prone character as Anton Chigurh—and he wasn’t even sure why the Coens had thought of him for the role. “It’s not something I especially like, killing people—even in movies,” Bardem told Entertainment Weekly. “When th...
Though the Coens were sold on Bardem for the part, there came a point in the film’s production where it looked like the actor’s schedule might not allow for him to say yes to the role. So they checked to see if Mark Strong might be available. “I was phoned one weekend and told, ‘Listen Javier’s dates don’t work,’ so for a few days I was thinking, ‘...
It’s impossible to make mention of Chigurh without mentioning his iconic—and very, very bad—haircut. When asked about the inspiration for his bowl, Ethan explainedthat, “The art department does a lot of research, mainly photo research, because it’s a period thing, although a recent period, it’s 1980 Texas border area … They look at archive pictures...
Chigurh's alligator boots were no off-the-rack pair of shoes. Costume designer Mary Zophres had them made specifically for Bardem’s character for the film, as she wanted them to reflect the character by looking“bumpy and pointy and gross and to look like they could kill someone."
In an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Scottish actress Kelly Macdonald was asked how great it felt to get a call saying the Coen brothers wanted to work with her, which is when she had to explain that being cast as Carla Jean Moss wasn’t quite that kind of fairy tale. “If that had happened then that would be really exciting but that’s not what happ...
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. [1] The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel ...
May 24, 2021 · No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers’ near beat-for-beat film adaption of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name, wears a lot of hats. On the surface, it’s a blood-and-dust Western Noir, a pulp drama about drugs, guns, and money. But it’s also clearly a meditation on old age, on death and fate, and, ultimately, on finding ...
- Walter Jones
No Country for Old Men is a violent book, and McCarthy never shies away from describing murder and mayhem in the most gory detail. Though the novel shares many of the characteristics of McCarthy's earlier works, it also breaks new ground for the author. On one level it serves as a philosophical meditation on good and evil—as do, for example ...
People also ask
Is no country for Old Men based on a true story?
Is there a poem based on no country for old men?
Who wrote no country for old men?
Does 'no country for old men' have a real main character?
What is no country for old men about?
Did Joel & Ethan Coen MAKE a movie of 'no country for old men'?
Sep 13, 2017 · a Masterful Book–Movie Collaboration, 10 Years Later. When No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ adaptation of the novel by Cormac McCarthy, screened at the Toronto Film Festival in ...
